The Lesson of 'Andrei Rublev'

What Tarkovsky's 1966 masterpiece tells us about how be good in evil times

Andrei gazes at devastation; Theophanes keeps his eyes on heaven

I’ve been thinking about how to tell you about the events of the past few days. It’s going to require a couple of posts. The best way to start is by offering you the text of a talk I gave at a meeting in Oxford last week. My speech was about what Andrei Tarkovsky’s great 1966 film Andrei Ru…